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hair-raisingly

hair-raisingly adverb: in a hair-raising manner.

Adverb

hair-raisingly (comparative more hair-raisingly, superlative most hair-raisingly)

  1. (idiomatic) In a hair-raising manner.
    • a hair-raisingly long ascent

Forms of hair-raisingly

comparativemore hair-raisingly
superlativemost hair-raisingly

Questions about hair-raisingly

What does hair-raisingly mean?
Hair-raisingly means in a hair-raising manner.
What part of speech is hair-raisingly?
Hair-raisingly is an adverb.

Words near hair-raisingly in the dictionary

  1. hair-pipes
  2. hair-pulling disorder
  3. hair-raiser
  4. hair-raisers
  5. hair-raising
  6. hair-raisingly
  7. hair-salt
  8. hair-salts
  9. hair-shirt
  10. hair-shirted
  11. hair-shirts

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